{"id":5408,"date":"2026-07-26T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5408"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:39:11","slug":"exclusive-ex-nj-gop-aide-accused-of-staging-hate-crime-hoax-is-now-dating-felon-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5408","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Ex-NJ GOP aide accused of staging hate crime hoax is now dating felon: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The ex-GOP aide accused of staging a politically motivated hate-crime hoax in New Jersey by slashing her body with scars is now dating a career criminal with an ankle monitor and a rap sheet spanning three states, sources told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5406\">A message for the New York state dopes who voted to legalize weed: Told you so<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Natalie Greene, who faces federal charges for allegedly orchestrating a fake 2025 attack in which \u201cTrump whore\u201d was carved onto her body while working for Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew, recently shared a smiling Fourth of July selfie with the heavily tattooed man. <\/p>\n<p>People familiar with the relationship identified him as her boyfriend, 34-year-old Dylan Wayne Goetz, whom she allegedly met on the dating app Hinge.<\/p>\n<p>Goetz, originally from Washington state, has accumulated convictions and arrests dating back to 2010, including for possession of fentanyl, burglary, grand theft and money laundering, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s cycled through county jails and had a two-year prison stint in Oregon from 2018 to 2020, according to the state\u2019s Department of Corrections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Goetz was most recently busted on burglary and second-degree grand theft charges after he allegedly broke into a Florida home and stole a safe holding over $10,000 worth of items including a Rolex and cash in July 2022, per court filings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite his long rap sheet, Goetz is no criminal mastermind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe stole a safe and he called his drug dealer to come pick him up and he ended up leaving his phone at the scene,\u201d said a source who knows Greene and through her has knowledge of the arrest, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity. \u201cThat\u2019s how he got caught.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goetz has pleaded not guilty to the crimes and has been released to a drug abuse treatment center in Oakland Park with an ankle monitor since August 2025, court papers show. He\u2019s due back in court in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5404\">Court checks Illinois\u00a0Gov. JB Pritzker as Trump administration scores another immigration win<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Greene\u2019s allegedly fake assault case, she was charged with conspiracy to falsely report a violent attack and giving false statements to law enforcement after claiming she was repeatedly slashed by three masked gunmen at a park in Egg Harbor Township on the night of July 23, 2025. She said it was a politically motivated attack because she worked for Van Drew, a pol who had switched from Democrat to Republican in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>She was granted supervised release in January as she awaits trial, and is reportedly living a chaotic life in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Childhood campmate Kristin Haughton James welcomed her into her Florida home and was acting as her custodian until all hell broke loose and she kicked her out in March, she claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never met chaos incarnate until I met this person,\u201d she told NJ.com. \u201cLives for the drama \u2013 wants everything to be about her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haughton James said Greene left her home a wreck, tried to get her evicted and falsely told cops that she was dealing drugs and threatened her with a gun.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before moving in with Haughton James, Greene had already cycled through two other guardians \u2014 including her mother \u2014 and had been ordered to attend inpatient treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is unclear where Greene moved to, but the source claims she now lives in an apartment in Pompano Beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5402\">Oklahoma influencer, husband dead in apparent murder-suicide two weeks after wife accused him of pedophilia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0An attorney for Greene and Goetz did not return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crazed ex-GOP aide accused of staging a politically-motivated slashing attack is dating a felon with an ankle monitor and a lengthy rap sheet across three states, sources told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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